MüSACEAE 



von 



K. Schumann. 



(Gedruckt im Januar 1900.) 



(Musae Juss. Gen. (1789) 61. — Musaceae J. St.-Hil. Expos, fam. I. (1805) 151. — 

 Scitamineae trib. Museae Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. III. (1883) 639.) 



Wichtigste Litteratlir: L. C. Richard, De Musaceis commentatio in Nova Acta Acad. 

 nat. cur. XV, 2. suppl. Bonn(l 83 1) ed. A. Richard. — Horaninow, Prodr. monogr. Scitamin. 

 Petersburg (1862) (Horan. Prodr.). — Endlicher, Gen. I. (1837) 227. — Bentham in 

 Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. III. (1883) 639. — Petersen in Engl. u. Prantl, Pflzfam. II. 6. 

 (1889) 1, in Fl. brasil. III. 3. (1890) 1 (Peters.). — Sagot in Bull. Soc. bot. France 

 XXXIII. (1886) 317, 1. c. XXXIV. (1887) 328. — Sulp. Kurz in Journ. Agric. Hortic. 

 Soc. India 1. ser. XIV. (1867), 2. ser. V. (1878). — Baker, Synops. of gen. and spec. 

 Museae in Ann. of Bot. VII. (1 893) I 89, in Kew Bull, (l 894) 229. 



Morphologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte: Brongniart, Note sur la Sym- 

 metrie florale des Musac. in Bull. Soc. bot. France III. (1856) 170. — Eichler, Blüten- 

 diagramme I. (1875) 167. — K. Schumann, Morphol. Stud. 50, 234 (1892, 1899). 



Anatomie: Wittmack, Musa Ensete in Linnaea XXXV. (1867) 209. — De 

 Bary, Anatomie (1877) a. v. O. — Ross, Beitr. zur Anat. abnorm. Monocot. würz, in 

 Ber. deutsch, bot. Ges. I. (1883) 331. — Kohl, Anat. physiol. Unters, der Kalksalze u. 

 Kiesels, in der Pfl., Marburg (1889). — Lippisch in Österr. bot. Zeitschr. XXXIX. (1889) 

 260. — Petersen, Bidrag til Scitam. anat. in Danske Vid. Selsk. Skrift. 6. Raekke nat. 

 Afd. VII. (1893) 337. 



Character. Flore s zygomorphi, interdum abortu sexus alterius diclines monoeci. 

 Tepala nunc omnia aequalia nunc in sepaloidea et petaloidea distincta, nunc libera nunc plus 

 minus alte coalita, descendenti-vel adscendenti-imbricata, colorata. Stamina fertilia 5, 

 raro 6, summum interdum in staminodium mutatum, omnia libera; antherae anguste lineares 

 dithecae, thecae rimis longitudinalibus dehiscentes. Ovarium inferum triloculare; in loculis 

 ovula solitaria vel vulgo pluria basi vel vulgo angulo centrali affixa, anatropa erecta vel 

 horizontalia; nectaria in dissepimentis ovarii immersa (Septaldrüsen); stilus simplex, 

 stigmate alte trilobo vel simplici vel capitato tunc tri-vel sexlobo terminatus. Fructus 

 baccatus vel capsularis, prior nunc pulposus nunc subsuccus et coriaceus, ulterior nunc 

 loculi-nunc septicidus. Semina dura exarillata vel arillo plus minus magno involuta; 

 embryo rectus pileatus vel capitatus in perispermio farinoso. 



Herbae perennes vel arbores, priores ipsae saepe statura gigantea; axis statu juvenili 

 brevis , vaginae foliorum eum alte superantes et caulem spurium simulantes ; serius prior 

 accrescit et centrum caulis herbacei percutit, nisi inflorescentiae prope basin caulis vel e 

 rhizomate ab axi folioso distinctae enascuntur. Folia disticha vel spiraliter disposita, petio- 

 lata magna vel maxima vagina ampla involuta donata , ligula , lamina late vel latissime 

 linearis vel oblonga obtusa pinnatinervia saepe secus nervös secundarios diffissa. Inflores- 

 centia simplex bracteata spicam spiralem densam referens vel saepe composita tunc panni- 

 culam disticham laxiorem exhibens. Flor es sessiles vel breviter rarius longius pedicellati 

 ebracteolati vel bracteolati nunquam parvi. 



Pflanzenreich. IV. 45. \ 



